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Subject: Re: Problems Building Motif on Sparc running X11R4.18 and 4.0.3
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Date: 18 Jan 91 15:43:15 GMT
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John Cavanaugh wrote:

> gcc -DNOSTDHDRS -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return -c -O -D_NO_PROTO -DSTRING
> S_ALIGNED -DNO_REGEX -DNO_ISDIR -DUSE_RE_COMP -DUSE_GETWD -I/usr/local/X11/inclu
> de -I../../. -I. -I../.././lib/Xt -I../../. -I../.././lib -I../.././X11    -DR4_
> INTRINSICS -DXAW_BC VaSimple.c
> VaSimple.c: In function XmVaCreateSimpleMenuBar:
> VaSimple.c:511: parse error before `va_dcl'

This is a problem with the intricate relationships around ANSI C, prototypes and
varargs.  If you are compiling with an ANSI C compiler (or at least a compiler
that defines __STDC__) and without prototypes, a quick fix is to add this to
VaSimple.h:

	#define va_dcl int va_alist;

(the semicolon is correct).

A slightly better solution will be in 1.1.1.

David Brooks
Systems Engineering
Open Software Foundation